RE: Century Toastmasters Agenda 3-16-05
Please let me know if you'd like to fill in for the open spot.
CENTURY TOASTMASTERS
CLUB 9273 – Vision statement “YES, You CAN“
Club website: www.centurytoastmasters.com
WEDNESDAY, March 23, 2005 12 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric, 8306 Century Park Court, Building 4, 4120C
Theme: Birds & Bees
WOW: Euphemism – a word or phrase used in place of a term that might be considered too direct,
harsh unpleasant, or offensive
12:05 CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE Jude Awiylika
OPEN MEETING Dick Larkin
12:10 TOASTMASTER Dick Larkin
12:12 SELF INTRODUCTIONS All
12:20 SPEAKER #1 Christina Baker, CTM 2
12:28 SPEAKER #2 Allison Converse, CTM 4
12:36 SPEAKER #3 Jose de la Torre, CTM 1
12:44 GENERAL EVALUATOR Molly Frisbie
EVALUATOR #1 Matt Greenbergs
EVALUATOR #2 Tony Gutierrez
EVALUATOR #3 Frida Vissuet
GRAMMARIAN/AH COUNTER Open
TIMER Nina Terrell
12:52 TOASTMASTER - PRESENT AWARDS Dick Larkin
12:55 BUSINESS WRAP UP Dick Larkin
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE – Wednesday March 30, Building 4, Room 4120C
Toastmaster: Open Grammarian/Ah Counter: Open
Educational Moment: Open General Evaluator: Open
Speaker #1: Issa Zumot, CTM 2 Evaluator #1: Open
Speaker #2: Molly Frisbie, CTM 5 Evaluator #2: Open
Speaker #3: Michael Elizondo, guest Evaluator #3: Open
Table Topics Master: Open Timer: Open
Century Toastmasters Sweeps Area Contest
Our very own Jim Tucker and Martin Olmeda won both competitions at the
Area 5 Toastmasters competition.
Jim took first place in the International Speech Competition. as an
aside, Jim has gone all the way to the international contest the last
three years. This places him squarely as one of the top 9 Toastmasters
in the world!
Not to be overshadowed, Martin Olmeda, another of our illustrious
members won the evaluation contest. Evaluations are a critical
component of the Toastmasters program. By receiving high quality
evaluations, we learn how to improve.
I speak for all members of Century Toastmasters offering our sincere
congratulations and best wishes to our champions.
Dick Larkin
Club President
Century Toastmasters Meeting Minutes 3-9-05
Century Toastmasters Meeting Minutes 03-09-05
Theme: Tax Time
WOW: Fiduciary – relating to the holding of something in trust for another
Century Toastmasters had the wonderful opportunity to host guest speaker Mark Gray of Liberty Tax Service. He presented several ways that ordinary people can cut taxes. He informed the group that important tax credits can be gained from educational programs and children. Mark also suggested investing in 401(k)s and IRAs as much as possible because taxes are deferred and your taxable income is reduced. Also, Mark highlighted the benefit of going to a licensed tax professional to help you with your taxes.
Joe Stewart bravely filled in as Toastmaster for the rest of the meeting and lead Table Topics. Byron Shovlain, Doug Goodman, and Heather Stachelrodt all answered Joe’s questions related to paying taxes.
With 19 people in attendance and 1 dog, we all enjoyed hearing of ways to save money. We welcomed Christine Walker, Nina Terrell and Fidel Castro as new guests, and Heather as our newest member! Welcome all!
The Area Contest will take place March 11, 6:30 p.m. at nearby Solar Turbines. Everyone is invited to cheer on our contestants, Martin and Jim Tucker.
The next meeting is Wednesday, March 16, in Building 4, Room 4120C. Please email Joe ( joe.stewart@twp.cc ) if you’d like to fill in a position for next week’s meeting.
Molly Frisbie, Secretary
Century Toastmasters
Century Toastmasters Agenda 3-16-05
Please let me know if you'd like to fill in for open spots.
CENTURY TOASTMASTERS
CLUB 9273 – Vision statement “YES, You CAN“
Club website: www.centurytoastmasters.com
WEDNESDAY, March 16, 2005 12 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric, 8306 Century Park Court, Building 4, 4120C
Theme: Leprechauns
WOW: Sylvan – relating to the forest or its inhabitants
12:05 CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE Jude Awiylika
OPEN MEETING Dick Larkin
12:10 TOASTMASTER Byron Shovlain
12:12 SELF INTRODUCTIONS All
12:20 SPEAKER #1 Andy Crabtree, CTM 2
12:28 SPEAKER #2 Joe Stewart, CTM 8
12:36 TABLE TOPICS Tony Gutierrez
12:44 GENERAL EVALUATOR Open
EVALUATOR #1 Molly Frisbie
EVALUATOR #2 Open
GRAMMARIAN/AH COUNTER Open
TIMER Open
12:52 TOASTMASTER - PRESENT AWARDS Byron Shovlain
12:55 BUSINESS WRAP UP Dick Larkin
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE – Wednesday March 23, Building 4, Room 4120C
Toastmaster: Open Grammarian/Ah Counter: Open
Educational Moment: Open General Evaluator: Open
Speaker #1: Christina Baker, CTM 2 Evaluator #1: Open
Speaker #2: Allison Converse, CTM 4 Evaluator #2: Open
Speaker #3: Jose de la Torre, CTM 1 Evaluator #3: Open
Table Topics Master: Open Timer: Open
Century Toastmasters Meeting Minutes 3-2-05
Century Toastmaster Meeting Minutes 03-02-05
Theme: Marching Towards Spring
WOW: Burgeoning – producing new buds and leaves; flourishing or developing rapidly
Century Toastmasters kicked the month off right with 19 people in attendance! Sergeant in Arms Jude Awiylika started off the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, before handing over the meeting to President Dick Larkin. Dick announced that March 1 was the 12th anniversary of Century Toastmasters. Congratulations to all members and special thanks to our Founders! Toastmaster Tony Gutierrez took the time to introduce our guests of the meeting, Heather Stachelrodt, Raquel Rodriguez, and Dan Selis. We hope you enjoyed your time at the meeting, and hope you all come back soon. After self-introductions, Tony jumped right into introducing the first speaker of the day, Jude.
Jude chose a very meaningful and personal topic for his speech; he explained to the group the process he went through recently to gain United States citizenship. It all started for Jude back at his home country of Cameroon. He was asked to go to the U.S. Embassy, and after several months of physical and medical tests he flew to New Jersey with U.S. permanent resident status. Soon after he moved to Washington D.C. where he completed his degree at Howard University. After deciding to apply for citizenship Jude went through a series of paperwork mishaps in San Diego, but as he said. “Everything was worth it.” After all his interviews, he probably knows U.S. history better than the rest of us.
Byron Shovlain, working on his CTM 7, chose to research and present on the topic of listening. Byron used his fine internet searching skills to find useful facts and tips for the rest of us. He suggested visiting www.listen.org. Bryon talked about the Benefits of listening, the Elements of listening, and Tips for listening. We should always remember to show interest in the speaker, keep our emotions in check, respect the speaker, not rush the speaker, and show empathy to the speaker. And Byron reminded us that we have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
I (Molly Frisbie) spoke on a topic I know very well, the American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete Canoe Competition. I participated and competed in the event for 3 years in college, designing and leading the group my last year. I explained the purpose of the event, how the event works, and some of the details of how my team designed and built our canoes. I forgot to mention that the boats are about 20’ long, weigh anywhere from 100-250 pounds, and are usually 0.25”-1” thick.
Jim Tucker did a fine job of leading the evaluation team of Dick Larkin, Martin Olmeda, Matt Greenbergs, Joe Stewart, and Jose de la Torre. Joe noticed a good lack of “filler words” and we pretty much stayed on schedule for the meeting.
Martin Olmeda won Best Evaluator, and yours truly won Best Speaker.
The Area Contest will take place March 11, 6 p.m. at nearby Solar Turbines. Everyone is invited to cheer on our contestants, Martin and Jim Tucker.
The next meeting is Wednesday, March 9, in Building 6, Seminar Room 2. Don’t miss our guest speaker Mark Gray delivering a speech titled “Five Ways to Cut your Taxes.”
Molly Frisbie, Secretary
Century Toastmasters
RE: Century Toastmasters Agenda 3-2-05
I can do Eval #3 tomorrow, I would like the practice in preparation for the upcoming Area contest.
Martin Olmeda
-----Original Message-----
From: Frisbie, Molly
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:47 AM
To: Frisbie, Molly; Shovlain, Byron; Converse, Allison M.; Sherif, Amir; 'Andres Acosta (E-mail)'; 'Cathy Alfaro (E-mail) (E-mail)'; Century Park Toastmasters; 'Christina Baker (E-mail)'; 'dee.williams@jackinthebox.com'; 'Dick Larkin (E-mail) (E-mail)'; 'Doug Goodman (E-mail) (E-mail)'; 'Emily Waters (E-mail)'; 'Frida Vissuet (E-mail) (E-mail)'; 'Jennifer Duncan (E-mail)'; 'Joe Stewart (E-mail) (E-mail)'; Awiylika, Jude; ''Julio Sanchez' (E-mail) (E-mail)'; Greenbergs, Matthew; Hilden, Mike (CSC); 'Nancy Batterman (E-mail)'; 'robert .corbin'; 'StevieJaworski'; 'Tony Gutierrez'
Cc: 'Toastmasters Minutes&Announcements (E-mail)'; 'Chantal Roche (E-mail)'; Sherrill, Harold G; 'James Phung (E-mail)'; Norris, Julie; Hendricks, Kristine; Stanley, Lee; 'Peter Rondineli (E-mail)'; Edra, Sherwin; Castro, Fidel R; 'issa@fdbs.com'; 'pdstrong@san.rr.com'; 'ee_chris2001@yahoo.com'; 'adrienne.mccrumb@sdenergy.org'; 'jpasqualetto@katzandassociates.com'; 'cher.vargas@cox.net'; 'dfradelis@san.rr.com'; 'jose.delatorre@sdenergy.org'; 'bengreet@hotmail.com'; Bastian, Maria; Jang, James
Subject: Century Toastmasters Agenda 3-2-05
Please let me know if you'd like to fill in for open spots.
CENTURY TOASTMASTERS
CLUB 9273 – Vision statement “YES, You CAN“
Club website: www.centurytoastmasters.com
WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2005 12 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric, 8306 Century Park Court Building 4, 4120C
Theme: Marching Toward Spring
WOW: Burgeoning – producing new buds and leaves; flourishing or developing rapidly
12:05 CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE Jude Awiylika
OPEN MEETING Dick Larkin
12:10 TOASTMASTER Tony Gutierrez
12:12 SELF INTRODUCTIONS All
12:20 SPEAKER #1 Jude Awiylika, CTM 3
12:28 SPEAKER #2 Byron Shovlain, CTM 7
12:36 SPEAKER#3 Molly Frisbie, CTM 4
12:44 GENERAL EVALUATOR Jim Tucker
EVALUATOR #1 Dick Larkin
EVALUATOR #2 Alan Colton
EVALUATOR #3 Open
GRAMMARIAN/AH COUNTER Open
TIMER Jose de la Torre
12:52 TOASTMASTER - PRESENT AWARDS Tony Gutierrez
12:55 BUSINESS WRAP UP Dick Larkin
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE – Wednesday March 9, Building 6, Seminar Room 2
Guest Speaker: A tax specialist who will be delivering a speech titled
“Five Ways to Cut Your Taxes”
Century Toastmasters Agenda 3-2-05
Please let me know if you'd like to fill in for open spots.
CENTURY TOASTMASTERS
CLUB 9273 – Vision statement “YES, You CAN“
Club website: www.centurytoastmasters.com
WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2005 12 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric, 8306 Century Park Court Building 4, 4120C
Theme: Marching Toward Spring
WOW: Burgeoning – producing new buds and leaves; flourishing or developing rapidly
12:05 CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE Jude Awiylika
OPEN MEETING Dick Larkin
12:10 TOASTMASTER Tony Gutierrez
12:12 SELF INTRODUCTIONS All
12:20 SPEAKER #1 Jude Awiylika, CTM 3
12:28 SPEAKER #2 Byron Shovlain, CTM 7
12:36 SPEAKER#3 Molly Frisbie, CTM 4
12:44 GENERAL EVALUATOR Jim Tucker
EVALUATOR #1 Dick Larkin
EVALUATOR #2 Alan Colton
EVALUATOR #3 Open
GRAMMARIAN/AH COUNTER Open
TIMER Jose de la Torre
12:52 TOASTMASTER - PRESENT AWARDS Tony Gutierrez
12:55 BUSINESS WRAP UP Dick Larkin
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE – Wednesday March 9, Building 6, Seminar Room 2
Guest Speaker: A tax specialist who will be delivering a speech titled
“Five Ways to Cut Your Taxes”
